Things are happening quickly in the Microsoft-centric AI dev space, with the company previewing new AI features in Visual Studio 2022 ranging from a new .NET AI template to GPT-4o Copilot Code Completion.
Microsoft is revamping its TypeScript programming language with a native compiler and toolset. This effort seeks to address performance challenges, especially in large codebases, by porting the existing TypeScript compiler from TypeScript/JavaScript to the native language, Go.
Uno Platform has taken its "Hot Design" feature to public beta, extending the "Hot Reload" paradigm with functionality to visually edit and refine a running app in real-time.
Continuing the journey from "AI pair programmer" to "autonomous peer programmer" to, eventually, just "AI programmer," no human coding needed, just supervision.
With agentic AI now firmly established as a key component of modern software development, Microsoft graduated its Semantic Kernel Agent Framework to Release Candidate 1 status.
Microsoft shipped TypeScript 5.8 with improved type checking in some scenarios, but thorny problems caused the dev team to delay related work to the next release.
Along with .NET 10 Preview 1, Microsoft released.NET Aspire 9.1, the latest update to its opinionated, cloud-ready stack for building resilient, observable, and configurable cloud-native applications with .NET.
Microsoft shipped .NET 10 Preview 1, introducing a raft of improvements and fixes across performance, libraries, and the developer experience.
Microsoft's dev team has been busy updating the C# Dev Kit, a Visual Studio Code extension that enhances the C# development experience by providing tools for managing, debugging, and editing C# projects.
The 4o upgrade includes additional training on more than 275,000 high-quality public repositories in over 30 popular programming languages, said Microsoft-owned GitHub, which created the original "AI pair programmer" years ago.
"Rust's strong type system and ownership model help prevent common programming errors such as null pointer dereferencing and buffer overflows, leading to more secure and stable code."
Just after expanding the reach of its Copilot AI coding assistant to the open-source Eclipse IDE, Microsoft showcased how it's going even further, providing details about a preview version for the Xcode IDE from archrival Apple.
Catering to Java jockeys, Microsoft is yet again expanding the sprawling reach of its Copilot-branded AI assistants, previewing a coding tool for the open-source Eclipse IDE.
New GitHub Copilot AI features range from AI-enhanced feature search to edits across files, new shortcuts and expansion of slash commands, along with much more.
Microsoft is previewing new AI tech that predicts next edits, allowing devs to just Tab to accept them and keep on going.
GitHub announced a raft of improvements to its Copilot AI in the Visual Studio Code editor, including a new "agent mode" in preview that lets developers use the AI technology to write code faster and more accurately.
Uno Platform, a third-party dev tooling specialist that caters to .NET developers, published a report on the state of WebAssembly, addressing some shortcomings in the .NET implementation it would like to see Microsoft address.
While some organizations are restricting employee usage of the new open source DeepSeek AI from a Chinese company due to data collection concerns, Microsoft has taken a different approach.
"TypeScript 5.8 introduces a number of optimizations that can both improve the time to build up a program, and also to update a program based on a file change in either --watch mode or editor scenarios."
"AI Toolkit extension for VS code now supports external local models via Ollama. It has also added support remote hosted models using API keys for OpenAI, Google and Anthropic."